Fairy wrasse Photo Library - Page 3

wrasseguy2 · #51 03/21/2007, 09:14 AM

yes i got i locally and it was not mispriced...they got a real good deal and passed it on to the public..got to love stores that will do that..when i was told the price i had to ask a few times to make sure that is what they were priced at...a very good deal..there are 3 left there at that price...i f i had room in my other tanks i would have bought all of them

blface · #52 03/21/2007, 12:57 PM

Wrasseguy2 please pm me with the location also.

snorvich · #53 03/21/2007, 03:59 PM

ray_archer2003, that is one awesome picture. And, of course, a nice fish.

zemuron114 · #54 03/21/2007, 05:35 PM

wrasseguy - do they order direct from Hawaii?

ray_archer2003 · #55 03/21/2007, 07:18 PM

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Originally posted by snorvich
ray_archer2003, that is one awesome picture. And, of course, a nice fish.

Hi Steve,

Thank you!

He never fail to entertain me by occasionally "flaring up" while chasing other fairy wrasses in my tank.

wrasseguy2 · #56 03/21/2007, 07:28 PM

i don't know if they do this was the first time i had ever been there and don't know them very well but i can find out

ktrandc · #57 03/27/2007, 01:54 PM

Bronco,

I noticed in one of your pics that you have a crosshatch trigger in your tank with your fairy wrasses. I have a small 4" crosshatch that is great but when I placed my new fairy wrasses (a rhomboid and a pink margin) into the tank the trigger came up to bite it. Do you have any issues with your crosshatch trigger attacking your wrasses or was it just an issue of the trigger checking out a new fish? What is your experience with your crosshatch? Thanks for any help you may be able to provide.

bronco7777 · #58 03/27/2007, 03:00 PM

ktrandc,

I think you may be confusing me with someone else. I do not have a crosshatch trigger in my tank. I've nver really been a fan of triggers.

bradleyj · #59 03/27/2007, 06:46 PM

Newly acquired fairies.
Bathyphilus, Rubrisquamis,

Not very good pictures, but you know how hard it is to get good ones. Take 50 pictures to save 1.

ktrandc, you may have been looking at my reef pictures. I have a female crosshatch, and she could care less about my fairies.

ktrandc · #60 03/27/2007, 08:18 PM

Sorry Bradley it was your pics I was looking at. I'm glad to hear the crosshatch has no interest in your wrasses. I think she was just checking them out and making sure they weren't meant for eating. The only thing my crosshatch has eaten are my red firefishes. I had 6 until she decided they were good evening snacks.

ktrandc · #61 03/27/2007, 08:20 PM

Bradley, I also noticed you have a mystery wrasse in your tank. I also had one but had to remove it because it was harassing my fairy wrasses too much. They were always trying to jump out of the tank to get away from it.

bradleyj · #62 03/27/2007, 08:43 PM

My mystery annoys them at first, but then loses interest in them. It's like he wants to make sure that all the newcomers know whos boss. lol

wrasseguy2 · #63 03/28/2007, 03:19 PM

here are some new pics i got

Scottkelly911 · #64 03/28/2007, 06:50 PM

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Originally posted by wrasseguy2
here are some new pics i got

Wrasseguy2, absolutely hideous, if you need to dump that pest, I've got a spare tank layin around that it might fit in

Really though, that pic is just awesome!

wrasseguy2 · #65 03/28/2007, 07:08 PM

lol thanks scott...i hope i never have to dump that guy...his color has really changed in the past month or so he stays almost that orange pink all the time and displays like crazy but never when i got my camera..it seems like they all do that..i am going to try to catch a pic of that in the next day or two that i got off...it colors when displaying are so sweet.

nickiwit · #66 03/28/2007, 10:55 PM

ktrandc, I have a female crosshatch and sargassum with my wrasses. My crosshatch could care less but my sargassum nips small fish added after him.

How do you guys get your fairy wrasses to get along? I added a Scott, Labouti and Solar to a new 400 gallon tank. Three months later the Labouti and Solar are still tearing each other up. Do you think the aggression would die down if I added another fariy wrasse or will they just kill it.

zemuron114 · #67 03/29/2007, 04:51 AM

looking good brad!

nickwit - in a 400 gallon im very surprised you have any aggression at all. Are they just chasing or literally tearing up fins?

Adding a smaller fairy would probably end up killing the new fairy. Maybe add a very large (larger then the laboutei and solar) and see what happens. i would add a xlrg pink margin to the mix. Shake things up. They are most likely fighting still for dominance.

what is the biggest one you have?

nickiwit · #68 03/29/2007, 09:02 AM

Thanks zemuron, the austrailian scott is the biggest. It would be hard to find a fairy wrasse larger then him. He is the boss. The other ones don't mess with him. The solar is a little larger then the labouti. The labouti doesn't get very many marks on him. The solar gets missing scales, protruding scales, and sometimes torn fins. The aggression is worse then what I see between my triggers and tangs. The only thing that I can think of why they are so aggressive is because we bought them from other peoples tanks. The Scott and Labouti lived together. The person we got the solar from had him for a couple of years as the only fairy wrasse.

zemuron114 · #69 03/30/2007, 03:17 AM

how long have they been fighting? Im still surprised.. lol

Can you move around the rockwork or anything?

nickiwit · #70 03/30/2007, 02:51 PM

We were also very surprised about the fighting. They have been fighting for about 3 months. We added the solar one day after the other two. We only had about half of our rocks in at the time we added them. Since then we have added a lot more rock and fish. We actually added more rock then we wanted to hoping that it would help with the fighting. Their fighting is worse when only the actinics are on. I guess we could skip that cycle all together. I do plan on adding a mystery wrasse. I wonder if that would help.

anguswu · #71 03/30/2007, 07:28 PM

lineatus wrasse

bradleyj · #72 03/30/2007, 08:00 PM

Very nice pictures. The lineatus is very hard to get a good picture of IMO.

zemuron114 · #73 03/30/2007, 08:03 PM

nickwit - adding the mystery could actually help. Get a bigger mystery(not a tiny one - maybe 2")

nice lineatus!

deanos · #74 03/30/2007, 08:12 PM

My female Whip-fin Fairy Wrasse (Cirrhilabrus filamentosus)

Scottkelly911 · #75 03/31/2007, 02:16 AM

Nickiwit, I'm really surprised to hear about your wrasses fighting in that large of a system. I've only got a 55 and have a Laboutie, an Exquisite and a Rose Scaled Fairy along with 3 Carpenters and a Pencil wrasse and the only aggression I get is occassionally my Exquisite will chase my Pencil but that hardly ever happens anymore. I don't have any other ideas other than what other people have said about adding another larger more aggressive wrasse like either a Mystery or an Exquisite or Rosy Scaled Fairy to the mix. Do you have any pix of your tank, 400 gallons must be awesome!